What happens when the junkies can't get their fix?

I live within 10 miles of a small city (York, PA) but it's not so small that it doesn't have an ample supply of junkies and crack heads. Has anyone thought about the drug trade and the "side effects" of it drying up. Yes, I know that I should move but the wife is a DWGI and selling the house is not acceptable. Plus, there are junkies in the country, too!

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Been there done that, "junkie patrol" that is. John-Q-Public
isnt targetted for anything. Junkies drop off very fast and violently
within their own "hemispheres" if they cant get their "shit".

If the stuff is available but no money is around they hit the easy
targets first and are disorganized and cannot get past a first level
resistance. By the way, the price of drugs is not related to
quality or availability, its based on "price affordable to pay".
If John-Q-CrackPipe cant afford $10 rock, the dealer WILL sell the
same for $5.00 or whatever can be raised.

Most of them will end up dead. They'll try to break into pharmacies
and hospitals, and eventually get shot or caught and thrown into the
barbwire camps where they will slit their wrists with barbwire
because it is easier than going through withdrawal.

This is something I have thought about quite a bit. There are all
kinds of junkies. Heroin is just one of many addicitions. When you
broaden your definition of junkie to include alcoholics, smokers and
tee vee addicts you begin to see why people may very well get testy
even if supply lines are only down for a few days or weeks.

Alcohol is by far the easiest drug to produce on demand. It is
however an extremely dangerous process in the hands of the
inexperienced.

But back to the issue of "real" junkies on illegle drugs such as
heroin and meth. You can bet those folks will be dangerous. They
are dangerous now. If you have any sort of prescription drugs on
hand I suggest you hide them VERY well.

Finally, once said junkies are too deep into cold turkey to be a
hazard there will be their children to care for.

Even a 3-day global winter storm would be bad for junkies. The
closing of the Panama Canal will be a disaster.

Even if nothing else breaks down the end of the JIT drug supply will
be bad news for everyone. Just as extended power outages and a
shortage of condoms are sure to increase "accidental" pregnancies and
the transmission of STDs.

Then you've never tried to help one who is going through withdrawals
and DT's. In my jail, some are not dangerous, others exhibit
superhuman strength and rage. And no, not just those on PCP. They
CAN be dangerous, each case is different.

You have missed the worst group.
It is the Methadone group!
It takes them 30 days to detox off Methadone and
they go nuts!
Heroin is MUCH shorter to go off.
Just a couple days of hell.
But Methadone folks have 30 days of agony and they will
try to steal any drugs to help them cope with that.
Prescription drugs from your home as well. And, they and
the junkies will have to pay super high prices and that
means more theft. Not of goods this time, but cash.

We ate more nutritious food, which we gathered from garbage, than
that the current generation consumes in overabundance.

For years I walked to a store to buy my lunch. I observed what the
kids from the nearby high school bought there to eat; almost
exclusively: colored sugar water and sugar bars. In more than a dozen
years did I observe one of them buy a banana, another one a cup
yogurt.

My stepfather, whom I no longer have anything to do with, is a raging
alcoholic. It is amazing he lives day to day NOW. If Y2K even
causes MINOR disruptions he is toast. In January of this year he
tried to off himself with vodka. Was taken with no pulse to the ER
where they determined he had a blood alcohol level of .596. The dr.
said he had never even seen a CORPSE with a BAL that high. That #,
BTW is the % of your blood that is alcohol, meaning that well over
half of his blood was pure alcohol. He had sliced the bottom of his
foot open and when they were trying to stitch it closed, he started
throwing punches, came off the table and got a concussion when he
landed on the floor. He actually GOT up after that and slammed into
the wall. THey got him back on the bed and put the restraining staps
on his arms and legs. I was there, it was scary, though he was just
acting the way he always has. They didn't exactly want to sedate him,
since sedative drugs are his problem, but they were AMAZED to see he
even FELT the stitches (they did numb up the area, too). Sheesh. He
went to a 6 month long intensive in patient rehab in Mississippi
after that and relapsed after they released him. That;s when I
decided 22 years of dealing with him when he won't even help himself
was ENOUGH. I have not spoken to him or seem him in months, but my
husband works at the same place he does (he lost his other job and
actually convinced these people to HIRE him, on a probationary
basis). His ex-wife, my biological mother, whom I also do not have
anything to do with, is addicted to many different types of
prescription drugs and has Bipolar Personality Disorder, untreated.
She sleeps with her doctors to get the rx. I guess she is pretty
attractive for 51, though a pretty messed-up person. I always think
people like that, for whom reality is hanging on a pretty thin string
to begin with are going to have the hardest time surviving any kind
of disruptions. (Just for the record, my read dad and stepmother are
really normal people who handle their lives just fine.)

I grew up in York, and I know the drug problem is serious
there....the mayor and the citizens better darn well think what they
are going to do. It is either going to be shoot them, give them free
drugs, or lock them up in jail (assuming heat) and make them go cold
turkey. of course, some judge would sayu this is cruel....

good think York is surrounded by farmland and farmers...but I guess
if they are all as clueless re: y2k and preps then the farmland may
not be utilized. Or, maybe people from {Philly, Baltimore and
Harrisbur will drive there looking to loot food.....O, Happy
thanksgiving anyway. enjoy the food, while we have it. And may we
ask God to be merciful so that we are alive at this time next year...